The C++ Containers (vectors, lists, etc.) are generic vessels capable of holding many different types of
data. For example, the following statement creates a vector of
Containers can hold standard objects (like the int in the above example) as well as
custom objects, as long as the objects in the container meet a few requirements:
The object must have a default constructor,
an accessible destructor, and
an accessible assignment operator.
When describing the functions associated with these various containers, this website defines the word
TYPE to be the object type that the container holds. For example, in the above
statement, TYPE would be int.